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Byline: ROBYN URBACK; Staff Now that the Progressive Conservatives are again in charge of the province of Ontario, it's back to work on fundamental conservative initiatives: appointing relatives to cabinet [...]

A great and mostly unknown prophet of our time is Michael Young, whose book ''The Rise of the Meritocracy,'' published way back in 1958, both coined the term in its [...]

Autocrats around the world won't gain from the United States' pain. Is the political disarray in the United States really ''a godsend for America's critics'' or a ''propaganda coup'' for [...]

Does the white upper class feel exhausted and oppressed by meritocracy? In 2001, when I was still attending college, David Brooks wrote an essay for The Atlantic called ''The Organization [...]

Byline: Harry Bruinius For many Americans, the principle of nondiscrimination is rooted in a deep moral commitment to the ideals of an American meritocracy. And many agree that, in theory, [...]

''If meritocracy exists anywhere on earth, it is in Silicon Valley,'' wrote David Sacks in an email to The Times's Jodi Kantor. Kantor was working on an article, published in [...]

Economic policy in the United States is ruled by gridlock. That's the common belief, and it's easy to see the evidence for it in the daily headlines. Immigration reform didn't [...]

Byline: RAMI KHOURI ARAB POLITICS Editor-at-large of The Daily Star and director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut There [...]

Through most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Protestant Establishment sat atop the American power structure. A relatively small network of white Protestant men dominated the universities, the world [...]

For years, Pakistan has ignored the Obama administration's pleas to crack down on militants who cross from Pakistan to attack American forces in Afghanistan. Recent cross-border raids by Taliban militants [...]

LIBYA'S new electoral law, passed by the National Transitional Council last month, provides guidelines for selecting the country's first-ever democratic government. Many, including the United Nations, hailed the law's passage [...]

VLADIMIR PUTIN / PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION The Putinian universe appears to be unfolding as planned. Vladimir Putin has been elected to a third term as president. His loyal place-holder, Dmitri Medvedev, [...]

Byline: AUREL BRAUN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION As sure as the winter snow in Moscow, Vladimir Putin is back as president. But in the wake of mass protests after the widely discredited [...]

Sadly, the transitional government in Egypt today appears determined to shoot itself in both feet. On Sunday, it will put on trial 43 people, including at least 16 U.S. citizens, [...]

Byline: AUREL BRAUN STATE DUMA ELECTIONS Even a flicker of democracy can ruin the best-laid authoritarian plans. When Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced in September [...]

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES It was always a long shot to think a businessman could compete head on against career politicians for the highest office in the land. On Monday, [...]

Byline: Roman Popadiuk, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Dec. 1 marked the 20th anniversary of Ukraine's independence referendum. More than 90 percent of Ukraine's population voted that day in 1991 [...]

MOSCOW -- It has been a long time since a Russian billionaire attacked the political system. In the past, it has not ended well. On Thursday, Mikhail D. Prokhorov described [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED GENEVA -- A slim figure in a dark suit, Brahumdagh Bugti, 30, could pass for a banker in the streets of this sedate Swiss city. But in truth [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- As Syria continues its most relentless assault yet on a five-month uprising, killing more than a dozen protesters Wednesday, cracks have begun to emerge in a tight-knit [...]

WASHINGTON - Here is the bad news forPresident Obama and incumbents in both parties: it can get worse - and stay that way for a long time. That might sound [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS PHONE-HACKING SCANDAL dsaunders@globeandmail.com I was greeted with incredulous stares when I told my Libyan hosts this week that I'd make a 17-hour drive across the Sahara followed [...]

Byline: Armstrong Williams, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES The streets of Juba, South Sudan's capital, were filled with jubilation this month as the world's newest nation formally declared its independence [...]

Byline: Maggie Fick * Birth of a Nation is a three-part series examining the challenges facing the world's newest nation: South Sudan. When South Sudan becomes the world's newest country [...]

WASHINGTON -- Early in June, President Obama and House Republicans met at the White House to bridge differences. Republicans complained that Mr. Obama was demagoguing their Medicare plan. The president [...]

BEIJING -- China's main Communist Party newspaper bluntly rejected calls for speedier political reform on Wednesday, publishing a front-page commentary that said any changes in China's political system should not [...]

Seven long months after parliamentary elections, Iraqis still don't have a government. Yet Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki was on another international road trip Monday -- this one to Tehran, [...]

Byline: Nathan Gardels The rise to power of Japan's new prime minister, Naoto Kan, holds important lessons for Asia's development model, particularly rapidly urbanizing China. More than anyone else in [...]

Byline: KONRAD YAKABUSKI PROFILE / SPEAKING FRANKLY WASHINGTON -- When three American thinkers - an unbowed neo-conservative, a cheeky liberal and neo-conservatism's best-known apostate - gathered in the capital this [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS dsaunders@globeandmail.com This weekend, in the wealthy corner of the world, is the traditional time to step back from the pressures of daily life and reflect on morality [...]